Synonyms of ambitious

ambitious

adjective

am-ˈbi-shəs 

1

as in aspiring

having a strong desire for personal advancement

an ambitious child actor and his even more ambitious mother, who will do anything to get him in commercials

Synonyms & Similar Words

• aspiring
• energetic
• ardent
• eager
• diligent
• hard-driving
• aggressive
• motivated
• go-getting
• dynamic
• pushing
• industrious
• self-seeking
• enterprising
• hungry
• avid
• spirited
• venturesome
• determined
• competitive
• scrappy
• impassioned
• vigorous
• overambitious
• opportunistic
• animated
• venturous
• hustling
• lively
• assertive
• driving
• pretentious
• pushy
• competing
• rival
• gung ho
• high-flying
• keen
• rivalrous
• raring
• self-assertive

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unambitious
• disinterested
• indifferent
• uninterested
• apathetic
• unenthusiastic
• casual
• unexcited
• easygoing
• ambitionless
• lackadaisical
• lazy
• halfhearted
• tepid
• lukewarm
• sluggish
• lethargic
• shiftless
• listless
• uneager
• spiritless
• unassertive
• lazyish
• unaggressive

2

as in aggressive

having or showing a bold forcefulness in the pursuit of a goal

cleaning up the vacant lot in one weekend was an ambitious undertaking

Synonyms & Similar Words

• aggressive
• adventurous
• fierce
• enterprising
• vigorous
• energetic
• militant
• assertive
• confident
• high-pressure
• daring
• in-your-face
• pushy
• go-getting
• bold
• self-assertive
• dynamic
• overambitious
• warlike
• pugnacious
• belligerent
• combative
• bellicose
• contentious
• determined
• self-asserting
• strenuous
• quarrelsome
• emphatic
• adventuresome
• truculent
• audacious
• impudent
• argumentative
• venturous
• gutsy
• hustling
• domineering
• disputatious
• venturesome
• gladiatorial
• bumptious
• insolent
• feisty
• cocky
• cheeky
• obtrusive
• trigger-happy
• unapologetic
• hyperaggressive
• overconfident
• brassy
• emboldened
• dashing
• presumptuous
• gung ho
• discordant
• brash
• scrappy
• cocksure
• dominating
• forward
• overbearing
• unyielding
• magisterial
• imperious
• unsubdued
• bare-knuckles
• bare-knuckled
• bare-knuckle
• lordly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unambitious
• low-pressure
• unassertive
• unaggressive
• easygoing
• relaxed
• nonassertive
• amenable
• compliant
• docile
• tractable
• deferential
• ambitionless
• submissive
• unenterprising
• modest
• timid
• acquiescent
• passive
• humble
• yielding
• mild
• resigned
• quiet
• shrinking
• shy
• laid-back
• subdued
• meek
• unobtrusive
• bashful
• diffident
• lowly
• reserved
• retiring
• servile
• mousy
• demure
• obsequious
• subservient
• slavish
• grovelling
• cringing
• groveling
• mousey
• overmodest
• cowering

Examples of ambitious in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The story of how this densely layered, hugely ambitious project came to be is the story of a sprawling conversation about space, art, and community between Escobedo; art collector, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Dasha Zhukova; and Sade Lythcott, chief executive officer of NBT. —Marley Marius, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2024

Without a Senate controlled by their own party, the next president will likely struggle to pass the most ambitious parts of their campaign platform. —Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024

Last month, OpenAI unveiled an ambitious new language model capable of working through challenging problems with a simulated kind of step-by-step reasoning. —Will Knight, WIRED, 16 Oct. 2024

Seasonal time fell out of favor in Japan at the beginning of the more technologically ambitious Meiji period in 1868 and was completely abandoned by 1872 with the adoption of Western time and the Gregorian calendar. —David Flett, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2024